Kitchen Project

It has been awhile since I posted because we have been busy with projects and family. The house painting is getting the finishing touches but the weather is not real co-operative. The kitchen update is progressing but anyone who has done any re model projects knows it is never done without delays. Then last week on Wednesday my mother took a fall and fractured her shoulder and pelvis. She is going to be recovering in a Rehab facility for several weeks but seems to be handling it well.

I am taking pictures of the kitchen to post as we change the look.

How about this global warming??? High this week so far hasn't reached 50.

Kiawah Pictures

Check out the new Kiawah slide show on the left of the blog. These are a couple of the other pictures from our week.

The Guys and Wives



The House we enjoyed for the week in Kiawah

Biking on the beach

Home from Kiawah

Finally arrived home again after a week in Kiawah, a visit to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and some work (for Steve) in Baltimore. Today is nothing like the HOT weather we had in Kiawah last week. I have long pants on for the first time since last May. I think the official date of fall occurring last week was an accurate calling of the end of summer weather in Northwest Ohio.

Our trip to Kiawah was a celebration of friendship. Five couples comprised of "the guys", friends from grade school and high school and the wives. It was an amazing time. We have done the decade birthdays together since 1979 when the guys turned 30. Not everyone every time but everyone has a good time. Steve and I missed the first in 1979 but have been at all of them since. We fear the conversations that might take place when we aren't there so it becomes a necessity to be in attendance or risk being the topic of the week. We rented a large house and cooked in this year and the result will be a best seller cookbook to be published here in the next couple of weeks. Remember to get those recipes to me. It was the perfect way to handle a group of 10 for dinner and also we found the cocktail hours to be much cheaper. Knowing we didn't have to drive home after dinner wasn't all bad either.

Lots to do at home now but look for more Kiawah this week.

Thoughts and prayers out to Tom who ended the week off in Kiawah with a Monday morning appointment for a hip replacement. We understand the surgery was a success and now hope for a speedy rehab.

Alligator warning

We are on vacation in Kiawah SC this week and as they say you are never to old to learn something new. Steve and I were bike riding yesterday and as we rode past a pond we heard what sounded like a motorcycle starting. As we came nearer I expected to see a worker with a gasoline engine weed whacker. But neither of these expected pictures came into view. What the sound was surprised both Steve and I. It was a rather large alligator either attacking something or just growling. I never knew that alligators made such a loud unusual sound. We heard it again later sitting on the deck of the house we are renting. There are ponds throughout the island and many signs warning of gators. We are all being a little more conscience now but are glad to know about a potential audible warning there are gators in the immediate vicinity.

Blog or Facebook

Lately it seems I have not been posting to the blog as often as I had hoped. Part of the reason is that I have been using facebook. Many of my friends are members of facebook and it is a quick way to get bits of information. It isn't the diary of life that the blog has been but it is fun. There are also lots of applications to use (i. e. games to play) I have become a Farm Town farmer and a whiz at typing maniac. I promise the blog will not die and as the weather turns and the golf ends I am sure I will have more interesting information to post.

I have felt somewhat overwhelmed this summer with Mike moving out and then breaking up with Kristin, the kitchen project and the roof and house painting. The projects are progressing, Mike seems to be doing OK, and golf is winding down. Vacation next week is a real positive. It will be nice to get away and the time with friends will be priceless. Expect lots of pictures as I am anxious to spent time with the camera experimenting with different settings. With the crowd we are going to be with I am sure there are going to be many picture moments.

For today I continue to tick off the items to get done before vacation.

Monday Monday oops it is Tuesday

Hope everyone had a delightful Labor Day Weekend and is ready for the change of seasons. We golfed, golfed and golfed and enjoyed a near perfect weekend. The exception is that it rained on the 17th hole on Monday. We played with friends in Cleveland on Sunday and it is always nice to see how your game holds up on a different course. The Cleveland friends were classmates of Steve's from Ohio State so it seems this September may be a month to celebrate long standing friendships. We look forward to our vacation in Kiawah later this month with friends too. That trip will celebrate the 60th birthdays of friends, some of whose whose friendships date back to grade school.

We saw Mike this weekend and he continues to tinker in his duplex. He has been decorating and changing things to his own tastes. It was fun to have him around on Saturday while we had friends at the house. He enjoys being with our friends and it is nice that they include him. He liked having a holiday that he did not have to work and still received pay for. His great delight is not having to work the day after Thanksgiving. I did not realize it until he brought it up for like the 12th time but all of his previous jobs did not include the day after Thanksgiving as a holiday. A reminder to all of us not working in retail or low level factory jobs to enjoy our paid holidays.